Modifying Head Elements In Dreamweaver’s Design Mode
A web page consists of two main areas: the head and the body. The body contains all of the elements which will be displayed in the browser window and the majority of which will be visible to the user. The head element, by contrast, contains information about the web page; meta information as it is sometimes called. In this article, we will look at the different ways in which Dreamweaver allows you to modify elements within the head of a web page, beginning with the title.
The title element should contain a broad description of the content of the page. It is extremely important that each page should have a title and that the title be pertinent to the page that contains it. Dreamweaver automatically adds a title element to every new page containing the text “Untitled Document”. Perhaps the easiest way of modifying the default title in Dreamweaver is simply to enter a title in the Document Title box of the Document toolbar which is normally displayed at the top of the page. An alternative is the choose Modify – Page Properties and then click on the Title/Encoding category on the left of the screen.
The title element is the only element which is syntactically required to be placed within the head element. In addition a number of optional meta elements may be placed in the head element to provide further information about the current page. One such meta element is created automatically by Dreamweaver along with the title: the content-type. This declares the character encoding to the browser and is particularly important if you have a site with an international audience. To specify the character encoding, choose Modify – Page Properties, click on the Title/Encoding category on the left of the screen and then choose an option from the Encoding drop-down menu.
The meta description element is also one of the most important since, along with the title text, it is often displayed when your page shows up in the search engine results. The description meta tag should consist of a couple of sentences summarising the content of the page. To create a description in Dreamweaver, choose Insert – HTML – Head Tags – Description then enter your description in the dialogue box which appears.
There are a lot of other meta tags which can be added inside the head element. However, let’s just mention one more: keywords. The keywords meta element should contain a list of the important phrases and words which occur on the current page. Only text that actually appears on the page should figure in the keywords. To create the keywords meta tag in Dreamweaver, choose Insert – HTML – Head Tags – Keywords.
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